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#1 2011-04-17 17:22:19
- Dans564
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[SOLVED] notification area vacant
so there is nothing in my notification area. No networkmanager, no sound , nothing at all. This is strange. I have reinstalled it restarted the computer and still its empty. Network manager luckily is still working because it has auto connected to my wireless network. please help. And i have already searched google and cant find any kind of fix.
Im using gnome btw....
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#2 2011-04-17 18:04:01
- Stebalien
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Re: [SOLVED] notification area vacant
1. Do you have a notifications area (is it in your panel)?
2. Try running nm-applet from gnome-terminal and post any errors.
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#3 2011-04-17 18:12:30
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Re: [SOLVED] notification area vacant
yes notification area is in my panel. I can see the little 12 dot separator and when I right click and select about is says "Notification Area 2.32.1". Although when I run nm-applet i get "bash: nm-applet: command not found." So I'm confused lol.
Thanks for the suggestion though
-Dan
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#4 2011-04-17 18:29:09
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Re: [SOLVED] notification area vacant
You need both networkmanager and network-manager-applet.
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#5 2011-04-17 18:32:49
- Mr_ED-horsey
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Re: [SOLVED] notification area vacant
Don't forget to add 'networkmanager' to your start up daemons in rc.conf file too 
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#6 2011-04-17 21:04:06
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Re: [SOLVED] notification area vacant
thanks a lot everybody. I seemed to have un-installed network-manager-applet when downgrading gnome 3 to gnome 2 and I never realized it. Also volume control isn't displayed through notification area as it is in linux mint (my last distro), but rather through a dedicated applet. So that was the confusion. After installing Network Manager Applet my notification area is once again populated.
-Dan
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